Coronation
Congratulations to Rysanekfreak (pictured), contributor of the best top ten list in La Cieca’s Oughty But Nice competition. The ‘Freak’s somewhat meta compilation was entitled The Top Ten Participants I Have Most Enjoyed Reading on Parterre Box During the Last Decade. Rysanekfreak will receive a $100 gift card
So many wonderful lists were offered up that La Cieca found herself with no choice but to extend her largesse, and so she has selected two runners-up who should prepare themselves to serve out Rysanekfreak’s term of office in the wake of the inevitable sex scandal. Winning tshirts from the CafePress parterre box collection are Valmont for The Top Ten Not Necessarily Romantic Power Couples of the Past Ten Years and Baritenor for The Ten Most Uncomfortable, Unpredictable or Unintentionally Hilarious Moments at the Met’s HD Transmission Backstage Segments.
And let La Cieca just add, “You are all winners, even though some of you are less winning that others.”
Congratulations, Rysanekfreak. It was, indeed, a most worthy list!
And in the self-same spirit of festival, I would very much like to share with you what I regard as the definitive operatic performance of 2009. It is perfect and, indeed, operatic, in every way imaginable.
One certainly doesn’t wish to detract from the glory of Rysanekfreak in her hour of triumph — else one might come across as a jealous bitch –, but one takes slight issue with her claim that “Maury D’Annato” is the best nom de blog in history.
Call me old fashioned, but I still chuckle uncontrollably at the time-honored “Dawn Fatale.”
Dawn Fatale dates from the pink paper era of parterre. It’s pre-blog.
Dawn Fatale is a friend of mine and I happily concede the name is cleverer(erer.) How lovely to make this list though!
I loved Baritenor’s list. I missed most of these moments, because I just don’t watch the interviews; I find them unnerving, and in translation most of them come across even clumsier than in English. But after reading the list, I think I’ll try and watch one or two during next broadcasts, in order not to miss such hilarious situations.
Congratulations guys!